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Tours en l'air organizes ballet-themed escorted holidays to see the best companies perform great ballets in beautiful places. You can join a trip from anywhere. A highly knowledgeable balletomane who has enjoyed 100s of performances in over 20 cities around the world,I speak English, French, and German, and am a Travel Industry Council of Ontario certified Travel Counsellor. I also teach ballet appreciation courses. Twitter: @thewordlady Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katherine.barber.37

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Experience the very best the dance world has to offer at New York City Center’s 12th annual Fall for Dance Festival,
where you’ll see world-renowned companies performing alongside daring
new artists. The Festival’s five programs will feature two commissioned
works and companies from all over the country, as well as from Brazil,
India, Israel, and beyond. Come to the theater early and take part in
free dance lessons and talks by choreographers, artists, and dance
critics.

Friday, July 24, 2015

Dance Magazine has just launched a new video series. “Behind the Curtain” follows one dancer throughout their day each
episode. Dive into the lifestyles of your favorite artists, from coffee
to company class, afternoon Pilates to performance. Stay tuned for new
episodes.

The first episode follows Daniil Simkin as he prepares his new project Intensio.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Performances in North America from September 2015 till July 2016Please note that the calendar below (please scroll down to the bottom of the page) does not aim to include EVERY ballet company in North America. There are too many of them for this to be feasible. It includes all the major companies and some regional companies. American Ballet Theatre does not announce its spring New York season till the fall. Most Nutcracker performances are not listed because of the sheer quantity of them. You can be pretty sure that anywhere you are in December, there will be a Nutcracker on!Companies and venues listed: Alberta Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Auditorium Theatre Chicago, Ballet Arizona, Ballet BC, Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Kennedy Centre, Miami City Ballet, National Arts Centre Ottawa, National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Silicon Valley Ballet, Sony Centre Toronto.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Cineplex theatres will once more be showing the Royal Ballet broadcasts in Canada along with the Bolshoi Ballet. The 2015-16 season is as follows:

The Royal Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Kenneth MacMillan’s famous version of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy
set to Prokofiev’s magnificent score returns to open the 2015/16 Royal
Opera House Live Cinema Season. This Romeo and Juliet is rich in the
swaggering colour of Verona street life and in sword fights and
celebrations, but MacMillan’s focus is always on the complex emotions of
the young lovers – especially on Juliet as she journeys through the
delirious happiness of first love to a shocked, adult perception of her
fate. Juliet is one of the most coveted of all ballerina roles, and as
MacMillan’s ballet enters its 50th year it resonates as deeply with
audiences today as when it was first seen half a century ago.ShowtimesSunday, September 27, 2015Captured live

The Bolshoi Ballet

Giselle

The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she
loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the
wilis, vengeful spirits who now turn against Albrecht and condemn him to
dance until he dies of exhaustion. This treasure of Romantic ballet is
one of the oldest and greatest in classical repertoire, touching upon
the great romantic themes: a doomed love affair ending in tragedy, a
dive into fantasy and ultimate redemption through the power of love. The
Bolshoi is renowned for its intimate and emotionally intense
interpretation of this beloved drama.ShowtimesSunday, October 11, 2015Live

The Royal Ballet

Viscera / Afternoon of a Faun / Tchaikovsky pas de deux / Carmen

Enjoy four short ballets in one evening with this quadruple programme
from The Royal Ballet. Carlos Acosta focuses on the dramatic essentials
of love, jealousy and revenge in his new production of Carmen.
As well as choreographing the production, Acosta will dance the lead
role. Liam Scarlett has used Lowell Liebermann’s thrilling Piano
Concerto No.1 as the inspiration for his similarly audacious
choreography in Viscera. Debussy’s evocative score is the inspiration for Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun,
which depicts two ballet dancers as absorbed by their own reflections
as they are attracted to each other. George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky pas de deux uses a fragment of music composed for the 1877 production of Swan Lake for an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique.ShowtimesSunday, November 15, 2015Captured live

The Bolshoi Ballet

Jewels

This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the
famous jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue,
celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St.
Petersburg, each bound to its own precious stone. Balanchine built a homage of captivating beauty to the
dance schools that had forged his style: Paris, New York, and St
Petersburg, each represented by a contrasting jewel: emerald, ruby, and
diamond. Starring Olga
Smirnova, Semyon Chudin, Vladislav Lantratov, Anna Tikhomirova,
Ekaterina Krysanova, and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet. (JEWELS was
recorded live on January 19, 2014)ShowtimesSunday, November 29, 2015Encore

The Bolshoi Ballet

The Lady of the Camellias

A young bourgeois, Armand Duval, falls madly in love with Marguerite
Gautier, a gorgeous courtesan celebrated by the Parisian high society.
Despite her infidelity, Armand will do all he can to win the beautiful
woman’s heart and convince her to leave her indulgent life. John Neumeier's tragic masterpiece is inspired by
Alexandre Dumas' novel and accompanied by a devastating all-Chopin. ShowtimesSunday, December 6, 2015Live

The Royal Ballet

The Nutcracker

Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without The Royal Ballet’s classic production of The Nutcracker. Peter
Wright’s enchanting production with its wondrously growing Christmas
tree and a rousing battle between the villainous Mouse King and an army
of toy soldiers, mines the colour of Tchaikovsky’s score, retaining
exquisite surviving fragments of the original Ivanov choreography,
including the beautiful pas de deux for the Sugar Plum Fairy and her
Cavalier.ShowtimesSunday, December 20, 2015Live

The Bolshoi Ballet

The Taming Of The Shrew

Many suitors dream of marrying the lovely and docile Bianca,
including Luciento. However her father will not let anyone marry her
before her elder sister, the ill-tempered shrew Katharina, is herself
married. French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot lands a coup with
his adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy tailored specifically to the
Bolshoi dancers, and achieves a magnetic two hours of breathtaking,
nonstop dance unlike any other, portraying the Bolshoi’s audacity and
energy in a completely new way. This new production was staged
exclusively for the Bolshoi and cannot be seen anywhere else!ShowtimesSunday, January 24, 2016Live

The Royal Ballet

Rhapsody / Two Pigeons

This delightful Frederick Ashton double bill opens with his setting of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini, using the music’s dark turbulence and
brilliance to inspire some of his most thrilling choreography, originally created to showcase the virtuosity of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Two Pigeonsis Ashton at his most romantic and features one of the most sublime pas de deux in the repertoire.

ShowtimesSunday, January 31, 2016Captured live

The Bolshoi Ballet

Spartacus

In ancient Rome, Spartacus, a Thracian king, is turned captive by
Crassus with his wife Phrygia. Forced to fight as a gladiator and kill
one of his friends, Spartacus plots an unprecedented upheaval.
Grigorovich's Spartacus was created at the Bolshoi in 1968 and has since
remained the Russian company’s signature ballet. This most spectacular
production is an epic tour de force, giving full expression to the
virility and strengh for which the Bolshoi’s male dancers are renowned.
Principal dancer Mikhail Lobukhin is stunning in the role of the
legendary gladiator, along with Svetlana Zakharova as Aegina and
Vladislav Lantratov as Crassus.(SPARTACUS was recorded live on October 20, 2013)ShowtimesSunday, March 6, 2016Encore

The Bolshoi Ballet

Don Quixote

Cervantes’ eccentric hero Don Quixote leaves on journey full of
adventures with his loyal squire Sancho Panza in search of his perfect
woman. On the way he meets Kitri, the dazzling daughter of an innkeeper
who he thinks might be his ideal love. The Bolshoi's panache and
excellence are combined in Fadeyechev’s critically acclaimed staging of
this exalting performance with Leon Minkus’ famous score. Featuring
brand new sets and costumes to accompany this colorful and technically
challenging production, DON QUIXOTE is quintessential Bolshoi, abounding
with life and not to be missed!ShowtimesSunday, April 10, 2016Live

The Royal Ballet

Giselle

Giselle is the quintessential Romantic classic, a love
affair that begins in the real world and continues beyond the grave. The
ballet’s title role also offers one of the great challenges of the
ballet repertory, as Giselle transforms from an innocent peasant girl,
duped into love, to a forgiving spirit who saves her lover from death.
For the ballerina this is a role of two contrasting halves: in Act I she
must appear naïve and artless, her dancing alive with an earthy
enthusiasm; in Act II she transforms into light and air, her dancing so
ethereal as to seem weightless. In Peter Wright’s production, the dual
aspect of the ballet is perfectly achieved: the first act dramatized in
rich, naturalistic detail and the second with a spectral, moonlit
beauty.ShowtimesSunday, April 17, 2016Captured live

The Royal Ballet

Frankenstein

Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett has chosen Mary Shelley’s gothic classic Frankenstein
as the basis for his first full-length narrative ballet for the Covent
Garden Main Stage. A story of betrayal, curiosity, life, death and,
above all, love, it inspires Scarlett to explore the very depths of
human nature and our need to find acceptance and a place in the world.
For this exciting new ballet Scarlett returns to the music of Lowell
Liebermann, from whom he has commissioned a brand new score.ShowtimesSunday, May 22, 2016Captured live

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About Me

So much ballet, so little time! Tours en l'air (presented by CWT Victor Travel) offers escorted holidays for ballet lovers to Europe and North America, featuring premium performance tickets and a comprehensive sightseeing program.
Katherine Barber is an ardent balletomane who has spent the last 15 years travelling to places as farflung as Chile, Japan, and Australia to see ballet. She has attended ballet performances in over 20 cities around the world. She has written reviews for Dance International magazine and has given pre-performance ballet talks for the National Ballet of Canada. She is fluent in French and English and speaks German, and is a Travel Industry Council of Ontario certified Travel Counsellor.